This chapter is devoted to the Romantic women philosophers, and it groups their reflections on subjectivity. This chapter aims to identify a common thread that unites these women thinkers and contributes to the understanding of the Romantic Self. Despite the diversity of their perspectives, they shared a common understanding of the self as shaped by relationships with others and nature, and as incapable of imposing herself on them, a view that echoes arguments presented by the men philosophers of Romanticism. However, these women thinkers tend to focus on a particular point: the possibility for the self to create a space for her own voice and, on occasion, her actions. After the explanation of Sophie Mereau’s notion of agency, and the differences between her and Caroline Schlegel-Schelling’s political thought, the chapter focuses on Mereau’s and de Staël’s interpretations of Fichte's philosophy and their idea of autonomy. The role of memory and love in Sophie Tieck's and Dorothea Veit’s conception of the self is then analysed. The chapter closes with Günderrode’s and Bettina von Arnim’s notion of subjectivity, and its relationship with nature and society.

Whatever law offers, it never does it alone. It always does whatever it does within societies where a lot else is going on. Law has to make its way in various terrains full of obstacles, rivals, and alternatives. Chapter 9 explores some of the consequences of this ever-present buzz, movement, and competition for the ways law works in societies. Above all, it stresses the complexity of social causality that lawyers often ignore. Law sends messages. Once sent, they compete with messages from other sources, often more salient for many people, and they will be variably received, interpreted, and acted upon depending in part on the relationships between the centre and various ‘semi-autonomous fields’ and ‘indigenous orderings’ that occupy the society. In many of these fields other sources of norms and settlements will be available and sought. This is not a pathology but a reality. Those concerned to temper power need to take it into account.

Consumed by thoughts of a blue flower, Heinrich leaves his cold homeland and travels south until he meets Mathilde, who opens his eyes to the world’s mysteries. Then a tragic event reveals the secret power of poetry …

Heinrich von Ofterdingen, left unfinished at the time of the author’s death, is a masterpiece of philosophical fiction and a classic of German literature. This highly detailed and original interpretation is the most comprehensive and systematic study of the novel ever written. Developing fresh insights into the philosophical ideas of the novel while also attending to its symbolic, literary, and creative qualities, Owen Ware explores how Novalis probes the core problem of modern life – fragmentation, and our sense of alienation from the world. Ultimately, he shows us, this novel is a timeless expression of the Romantics’ idea that only the imagination, guided by love, can bring us back to our spiritual home.

Chapter 2 presents a theory of globalized state-led development that helps us understand the conditions under which this model is adopted and implemented. It begins with the developmentalist dilemma faced by states: how can they help national firms benefit from global markets while managing the domestic political tensions these interventions provoke? This tension has important points of comparison with the challenges faced by the East Asian developmental states, yet has become more acute. Globalization and democracy have deepened the developmentalist dilemma by increasing the relevance of international production and innovation networks, constraining policy space, and heightening political contestation. A theory of globalized state-led development explains the conditions under which governments navigate these competing pressures by supporting national firms at home and abroad.

In this concluding chapter, we begin by reviewing what we have learned about the social structure and social context of crime hot spots, and how that leads us to reconsider both our understanding of the crime problem and of hot spots of crime themselves. We then turn to the policy implications of our work. Focusing on the social context of crime hot spots opens up a new array of potential approaches to do something about the crime problem. In turn, it brings us to recognize that other problems concentrate at crime hot spots, and addressing those problems may be important to control crime, and to ameliorate the disadvantages that people who live in crime hot spots experience.

Chapter 7 examines how relational banking operates through in-depth case studies of the ties between the BNDES and two Brazilian MNCs: JBS (an agribusiness firm) and TOTVS (an information technology firm). This case selection explores the comparative advantage-conforming and defying components of Brazil’s globalized state-led development. Through this granular empirical approach, the reader can observe the state’s interventions at the firm-level and isolate the precise levers and sequence through which the state influences firm behavior. The chapter presents both attitudinal (firm managers recognize the relevance of the state) and behavioral (support is temporally and sequentially connected to changes in the firm’s foreign investment portfolio) evidence that state financing shapes the internationalization trajectory of firms and helps states achieve their industrial policy goals.

The Epilogue offers a reflective and ethnographic account of the Falkland Islands in the aftermath of the 1982 conflict, viewed from the perspective of the present. Departing from the source-driven structure of the preceding chapters, it draws on the author’s personal experience during a visit to the archipelago in December 2017. The chapter advances a central paradox: while the war was deeply traumatic, it also marked a turning point that enabled the Islands’ profound economic and political transformation. In the post-war period, London ceased seeking Argentine approval for decisions concerning the Islands, a shift that expanded greater local autonomy and opened the path to prosperity. Tracing the policies and changes that followed, the epilogue examines the Islands’ new demographic profile and evolving social structure, drawing extensively on recent census data. It revisits the book’s core themes from today’s vantage point especially islander identity and relations with Argentina and concludes by suggesting that the postwar reality would have been unimaginable to the British, Argentine, and Falkland Islanders whose worlds the book has explored.

Minorities were the source of much concern and disruption in Europe in the 1920s. This chapter explores its subject by looking at three aspects: the more or less brutal neutralisation of the defeated unionists; the attempt to create a form of liberal democracy which would reassure minorities about their prospects in the new state; and a case study about one very practical aspect of what liberty meant for the most active and fervent Protestants: the freedom to preach at open-air events. This chapter approaches the issue of the targeting of Protestants in the Revolution through the diaries and memoirs of a few women who left detailed accounts of daily life in dangerous times, including Violet Whitla-Lucas and Edith Somerville. The picture that emerges is complex and contradictory, not least because of the chameleonic strategies adopted by many Protestants once the Union became unsustainable. The IRA aimed at taming unionists, rather than destroying Protestants, and its success was so complete that soon made violence unnecessary. More generally, once minorities ceased to be threatening for the nation state, the latter could afford to be generous to minorities.

This chapter anchors the insights gleaned from John of the Cross and Thérèse of Lisieux in biblical perspectives on sacrifice, as developed by Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Matthias Joseph Scheeben. Contemporary criticism of sacrifice (proposed by René Girard, feminist authors, and Robert Daly) are also addressed.

So far we have been discussing Manin’s conjecture over number fields. One can also develop Manin’s conjecture over global function fields, that is, the function field Fq of a smooth geometrically integral projective curve B defined over a finite field Fq.

This chapter considers constructions of the Argentine operatic canon in the years immediately preceding the First World War, focusing on Mascagni’s Isabeau. Premiered at Buenos Aires’s Teatro Coliseo in June 1911, the reception of Isabeau outlined competing efforts by critics and managements to shape a specifically Italian-Argentine operatic canon: one that could stand in for local compositions while moving away from the conventions of Cavalleria and Pagliacci. These ambitions were also shaped by concerns over the integration of Italian immigrants, in spite of the enduring success of many Italian operas and critical scepticism that surrounded more recent premieres of Wagner and Strauss. From an Italian perspective, meanwhile, Isabeau’s foreign profile intersected with broader questions of citizenship, nationhood and affective belonging that played out within both political and musicological discussions during a period when dual citizenship was legally impossible. Ultimately, the nationalist drives at work during the 1910s influenced the operatic canons we still draw on today, I argue, affecting critical attitudes towards non-Italian and emigrant composers alike.

Consumed by thoughts of a blue flower, Heinrich leaves his cold homeland and travels south until he meets Mathilde, who opens his eyes to the world’s mysteries. Then a tragic event reveals the secret power of poetry …

Heinrich von Ofterdingen, left unfinished at the time of the author’s death, is a masterpiece of philosophical fiction and a classic of German literature. This highly detailed and original interpretation is the most comprehensive and systematic study of the novel ever written. Developing fresh insights into the philosophical ideas of the novel while also attending to its symbolic, literary, and creative qualities, Owen Ware explores how Novalis probes the core problem of modern life – fragmentation, and our sense of alienation from the world. Ultimately, he shows us, this novel is a timeless expression of the Romantics’ idea that only the imagination, guided by love, can bring us back to our spiritual home.